The launch early last month of Google’s Street View service in major Japanese cities brought with it considerable controversy and debate among Internet users, particularly with regard to the scope of coverage and lack of local consultation prior to roll-out. Opinions among bloggers were divided — and remain divided — over whether broadcasting detailed images of the country’s public streets and […]
Remembering Martin Luther King Jr.
To commemorate the 40th anniversary today of the death of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., we’ve excerpted a speech delivered today by AFL-CIO Organizing Director Stewart Acuff to the Southern Regional Meeting on April 4, 2008. Thank you for your welcome, but most importantly, thanks for all you do everyday. I am very proud […]
History Happening: Sydney, Kormoran, and Grossman Found
Max Watts, Annandale, Australia March, 2008: Sydney, Kormoran, and Grossman have been found: Oh ! said my American Friend: “I didn’t even know they were lost !” They were. They had been. The Sydney and the Kormoran, together, since 1941. Grossman – perhaps linked, – since 1951. Of Grossman(n), more below. Now, March 2008, 67 […]
Greed Revisited
More and more it appears as if 2008 might become The Year The Truth Began To Be Spoken — particularly in these United States. That’s sure to be a welcome transformational experience for a culture long steeped in smiley-faced spin control. At first The Truth may appear to be hurtful, but that’s not its purpose. […]
American Misanthropes
We can now give “campus rampage” killers and their lot a name: American Misanthropes. What’s unexpectedly unsettling about them is coming to realize (a) we created them, out of a toxic pot of existentialism … and (b) these killers look an awful lot like us. by Donald Croft Brickner So-called “campus rampage” murder […]
The Violence Falls But the Sewage Continues to Rise
At the sight of an American soldier the mothers, holding on to their restless children, rose up as one. When was the rubbish and raw sewage going to be cleared off the streets, they wanted to know. The germs and the stench were posing a health hazard to their sons and daughters, they said. After […]
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